Live auction - bgr_611969 - CRETE - GORTYNA Drachme
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| Estimate : | 600 € |
| Price : | 490 € |
| Maximum bid : | 550 € |
| End of the sale : | 08 September 2020 14:23:47 |
| bidders : | 4 bidders |
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 150-67 AC.
Mint name / Town : Crète, Gortyne
Metal : silver
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 3,15 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan large et bien centré. Joli portrait. La monnaie a conservé une partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine. Patine grise de collection
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection de Frank Febrer, artiste peintre décédé en 2013
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbue et diadémée de Zeus ou de Minos à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse description : Héros (Gortys) nu debout à gauche, tourné de face, tenant de la main droite un bouclier et de la gauche, une javeline transversale ; le tout dans un cercle de rayons.
Reverse legend : GORTUNI-wN
Reverse translation : (de Gortyne).
Commentary
Poids léger.
Historical background
CRETE - GORTYNA
(2nd - 1st century BC)
Gortyn, the second city of Crete, is in the center of the fertile Mesara plain. Its coinage begins around 450 BC. It alludes to the abduction of Europa by Zeus, transformed in this case into a bull to escape the jealousy of Hera and conquer the nymph of which he had, among other , Minos. After a brilliant period of economic development in the 4th and 3rd centuries, the island of Crete fell under Lagide influence. Economic stake for two centuries in the Eastern Mediterranean, victim of acts of piracy, after a long period of political decadence, Gortyne was taken by the Romans during the invasion of Crete in 67-66 BC.
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